Mother strangles 6 year-old son to ward off Jinn on faith healer's advice -

An unusual murder took place when a mother killed her 6 year-old son after a faith healer she often visited, advised her to commit the act.

According to details, a woman who belonged to the Wandala Dayal Shah area of Ferozewala Tehsil, killed her six-year old son by strangling him with a piece of cloth. The mother had committed the heinous act on advice of a faith healer who had told her the act was necessary in order to ward off a Jinn that had taken over her. Sources revealed that the faith healer had told the mother that if she did not kill her son to ward off the Jinn, she would end up being dead.

Mother strangles 6 year-old son to ward off Jinn on faith healer's advice -

January 31, 2016::End of the day round-up

Gah!!  Now Gawd can cure type 2 diabetes,,,WTF,,,and Charisma is pushing the bullshit like it is true.  Next they'll being saying they can "cure" the effects of a stroke,,,holy fuck!!

To good not to share!!

 

Don't Believe in Christian Privilege? These 15 Examples Will Leave No Doubt — Everyday Feminism

Gary Cass Explains That Only Christian Men Are Qualified For Political Office

Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission released a new video today aimed at helping his fellow right-wing Christians understand "the biblical qualifications for political office," by which he meant that all of our elected leaders must be Christians ... and men.

"What should be look for in our elected officials?" Cass asked, rhetorically. "The first qualification is they must be a Christian ... What a candidate professes about God is absolutely critical, it will profoundly shape his leadership. 

Genuine reverence for the Lord is the foundation of knowledge ... so we need a leader who is alive spiritually and who will lead in the fear of God."

And those leaders, Cass explained, must be men.

A monster the GOP could’ve avoided: The conservative establishment created Trump—and now they can’t destroy him 

Another Gruesome Attack At A Place Of Learning In Pakistan

More than twenty were killed in an attack on a university in northern Pakistan on Wednesday. The attack took place after a group of gunmen scaled the walls of a university in a city before the morning fog had lifted and opened fire on students and staff at the co-ed Bacha Khan University.

“They were directly shooting at the heads of the students,” Naseer, a student and witness to the carnage who gave only his first name, told the Guardian.

He said that he counted more than 50 bodies strewn across the campus. With fifty of the most gravely wounded moved to a larger hospital in nearby Peshawar for treatment, there are fears that the death toll could rise as victims of the attack succumb to their injuries.
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For many in Pakistan, however, the attack is painfully reminiscent of a similar Taliban-led siege on an army-run school in Peshawar last December. In that case, attackers similarly scaled the walls surrounding the campus and killed more than 130 students and teachers.

“He Named Me Malala”: An inside look at Davis Guggenheim’s new film

It’s been almost three years since the world came to know Malala Yousafzai. On Oct. 9, 2012, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl was shot in the head by Taliban men for standing up for her right to go to school. 

After months in a hospital bed, Malala picked up right where she left off in her fight to give every girl the chance to get an education. She has become an activist and symbol for girls’ and women’s rights around the world. In December 2014, she became the youngest person ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

Oscar-winning documentary director Davis Guggenheim spent 18 months with Malala and her family, capturing her travels to schools across the world as well as her quite normal family life in Birmingham, England. Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric sat down with Guggenheim to talk about his new film, “He Named Me Malala,” which will be released tomorrow.  

“I realized that there was this very complex relationship between her and her father,” says Guggenheim about setting out to make the film, adding, “I wanted to unpack the mystery between this man and this girl.”

“He Named Me Malala”: An inside look at Davis Guggenheim’s new film

Abdul Basit: Pakistan postpones execution of disabled man because he couldn't stand up at the gallows | Asia | News | The Independent

Pakistani jail authorities postponed executing a prisoner who is in a wheelchair an hour before he was due to be hanged because prison rules did not make it clear how they should proceed, his lawyers said.

Abdul Basit was to have been hanged in the eastern city of Faisalabad on Tuesday morning, but authorities were stymied at the last minute because he could not walk to the gallows as required by the jail manual.

"When the judicial magistrate came to the hanging, these guys tried to make him (Basit) stand at the gallows ... it wasn't possible, so the magistrate postponed the hanging," said Wassam Waheed, a spokesman for legal aid group Justice Project Pakistan.

On Monday, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence against Basit, but only if it could be carried out in line with jail rules.
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Since then, 239 people have been hanged, although few have any links to militancy. Most, like Basit, were convicted of murder. Many of their families say they were falsely accused and too poor to get good lawyers or pay bribes. 

According to the BBC,

Campaigners say there is a danger that the hanging could go wrong and end up being a breach of the prisoner's dignity - which is protected by Pakistani laws.

"The rules presume that the convict [can] walk up to the gallows, which is not possible in Abdul Basit's case," Wassam Waheed, a spokesman for Justice Project Pakistan (JPP) told the BBC.

Abdul Basit: Pakistan postpones execution of disabled man because he couldn't stand up at the gallows | Asia | News | The Independent

Aftab Alam: Second Pakistan media worker shot dead in Karachi - BBC News

Gunmen in Pakistan have shot dead a former journalist near his home in Karachi, the third such attack on media personnel in less than 24 hours. 

Aftab Alam had worked with the country's largest private broadcaster Geo News.

On Tuesday night, gunmen shot at Geo TV's news van in Karachi, killing a technician and injuring the driver.

A journalist with national broadcaster PTV was also seriously injured when he was shot in an attack in Peshawar.

Police said the motives behind the shootings were not immediately clear, the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad reports.

Aftab Alam was on his way to pick up his children from school when he came under attack from gunmen on a motorcycle.

He had most recently worked for another leading Urdu-language TV news channel, Samaa, but was not currently employed in the profession.

Pakistan's financial capital has seen a spate of attacks on the media.

Aftab Alam: Second Pakistan media worker shot dead in Karachi - BBC News

Police Hunt ‘Exorcist’ Whose Ritual Killed Two Women ‹ Newsweek Pakistan

Have you ever noticed that it is women who are at the receiving end of these ideadly, treatments in the name of superstition and religion.

Police are hunting an “exorcist” over the death of a woman and her daughter who suffocated in a botched fire ritual to rid them of their demons, officials said.

The killings took place in Kot Addu, a rural town in southern Punjab, where many rely on traditional healers and black magic to cure their ailments.

The 40-year-old woman and her 15-year-old daughter were taken to a so-called holy man on Monday by a relative who believed they were possessed, district police chief Awais Ahmed Malik told AFP. They both died of suffocation when the practitioner locked them in a room and lit a fire to expel their demons, he added.
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Faith healers are common across Pakistan, an overwhelmingly Muslim country, with the practice rooted in mystic Sufi lore. A cure-all to some and for others a scam that preys on people’s superstitions, black magicians continue to thrive despite the disapproval of some hardline schools of Islam.

Police Hunt ‘Exorcist’ Whose Ritual Killed Two Women ‹ Newsweek Pakistan

Arrests Made in Murders of Atheist Bloggers in Bangladesh, But Int’l Response to Violence Remains Anemic | Religion Dispatches

To understand what’s happening in Bangladesh now—both the violence and the anemic response from the west—we need to look at some history.

In 1971, as West Pakistan violently cracked down on Bengali nationalists in East Pakistan clamoring for independence, Washington, D.C. remained silent. U.S. Consul General in Dhaka Archer Blood repeatedly urged President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to intervene.

Nixon and Kissinger, as Gary Bass would later recount in The Blood Telegram, were so anti-India that they ignored what would become one of the 20th century’s forgotten genocides: the killing of over three million Bengalis (including many Hindus) and the displacement of more than 10 million.

Among those who left what would become Bangladesh was Rukhsana Hasib, a young secular Muslim whose father—an East Pakistan military officer—was killed by West Pakistani forces.

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For years, beneath the loud and proud rhetoric of Bengali unity, Bangladesh has been increasingly radicalized, particularly in rural areas and villages just outside of major cities such as Dhaka and Chittagong. Even under the nominally secular Awami League, land-grabs against groups such as Hindus and indigenous tribes have gone up, and authorities have done little to deter violence led by Islamist groups and their allies. Now, religious minorities, atheists, and secular Muslims are now firmly in the crosshairs of an emboldened collection of radical groups.
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The lack of U.S. involvement in Bangladesh is multi-fold. Though the country is a trade partner with the United States, it lacks the strategic significance of its South Asian neighbors India and Pakistan. Additionally, the attacks against the bloggers are often presented in U.S. media without context. Perhaps more problematically, many Bangladeshis, particularly those living in more upscale parts of Dhaka, the capital city, have largely been shielded from the creeping extremism taking place throughout the country.

Arrests Made in Murders of Atheist Bloggers in Bangladesh, But Int’l Response to Violence Remains Anemic | Religion Dispatches

See also:

‘In 1971, Muslims murdered 2.4 million Hindus and raped 200,000 Hindu women’

UPDATE::Child abuse video scandal: Five accused presented in court - Daily Pakistan Global

Local police have presented five suspects arrested in connection with the child abuse scandal in court on Monday after the expiry of their interim bail, Geo TV reported.

Total seven persons have been arrested in video scandal case and the court will rule on whether the interim bail of the suspects presented today would be extended.

SP Investigation Kasur, Nadeem Abbas said ten suspects had been identified from 30 video clips.

Haseeb Amir, the main accused of Kasur child abuse scandal, has confessed to subjecting children to abuse and making their videos.

Child abuse video scandal: Five accused presented in court - Daily Pakistan Global

Country’s biggest child abuse scandal jolts Punjab

Punjab’s leading child protection official has called for a federal inquiry into ‘the largest-ever child abuse scandal in Pakistan’s history’ after the discovery of 400 videos recording more than 280 children being forced to have sex.  Most of the victims were under 14 but include a six year old boy who was forced to perform a homosexual act and a 10 year old schoolgirl who was filmed being molested by a 14 year old boy.
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The scale of the scandal emerged earlier this week after the victims’ parents clashed police during a protest against their failure to prosecute the men who orchestrated the scandal. Two dozen people were injured when police used force to disperse more than 4,000 protesters on the Dipalpur Road near Dolaywala village in Kasur district on Tuesday who were calling for justice for the victims.  They have claimed that local police have tried to cover up the scandal and that the perpetrators have used their influence to avoid being charged.
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So far only six alleged abusers have been arrested, five of whom have been remanded in custody but according to parents of the victims the abuse was orchestrated by a gang of up to 25 young men and teenagers led by two men in their 40s.

The gang arranged the abuse, perpetrated it in many cases, and then used the videotapes of the assaults to blackmail the children and their families to hand over millions of rupees. Many of the children stole gold ornaments from their parents to pay off their abusers to keep their ordeal secret.

Country’s biggest child abuse scandal jolts Punjab

Pakistani mob kills two children including a baby and their grandmother after 'blasphemous' Facebook post - Telegraph

A mob killed a seven-year-old and her baby sister along with their grandmother, a member of the Ahmadi sect, after another follower was accused of posting blasphemous material on Facebook, police in Pakistan said.

The dead were part of a religious sect, who consider themselves Muslim but believe in a prophet after Mohammed. A 1984 Pakistani law declared them non-Muslims and many Pakistanis consider them heretics.

The incident is the latest instance of growing violence against minorities in Pakistan.

Police said the violence late on Sunday in the town of Gujranwala, 220 km (140 miles) southeast of the capital, Islamabad, started with an altercation between young men, one of whom was an Ahmadi accused of posting "objectionable material".

"Later, a crowd of 150 people came to the police station demanding the registration of a blasphemy case against the accused," said one police officer who declined to be identified.

"As police were negotiating with the crowd, another mob attacked and started burning the houses of Ahmadis."

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Under Pakistani law, Ahmadis are banned from using Muslim greetings, saying Muslim prayers or referring to his/her place of worship as a mosque.

Salim ud Din, a spokesman for the Ahmadi community, said it was the worst attack on the community since simultaneous attacks on Ahmadi places of worship killed 86 Ahmadis four years ago.

Pakistani mob kills two children including a baby and their grandmother after 'blasphemous' Facebook post - Telegraph

“Earthquakes are caused by the Jeans-Wearing Women” | Winds of Jihad

Not something I normally post, but ya can't make this shit up.  H/T to The Atheists Cafe:

Islamabad: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islami Fazl (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman following the Friday sermon requested the armed forces of Pakistan to launch a military operation against “jeans-wearing women” all over Pakistan in a press conference at a local hotel in Islamabad. Fazlur Rehman while highlighting the demerits of an operation against the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) said that the Taliban were not Pakistan’s enemy and the forces needed to target the real enemies of Pakistan.

“The Taliban are our brothers and their angst against the state is justified,” Fazl said adding that, “As brother Ansar Abbasi has so eloquently put in the past: TTP’s suicide bombings are just Allah’s wrath upon us. And so there is a need to earmark and eliminate the real enemy of Pakistan: every woman who wears jeans.”

“Earthquakes are caused by the Jeans-Wearing Women” | Winds of Jihad

BBC News - Aitzaz Hasan: Tributes to Pakistan teenager killed when he stopped a bomber

A beautiful but sad story,,,

Aitzaz Hasan, 15, was with friends outside school when they spotted a man wearing a suicide vest.

Despite the pleas of his fellow students, he decided to confront and capture the bomber who then detonated his vest, his cousin told the BBC.

Aitzaz is being hailed as a hero in an outpouring of praise on social media.

There have even been calls for him to receive the army's highest honour awarded to those who have sacrificed their life for their country, though it is unclear if he would be qualified to receive it as a civilian.

"We the citizens believe that State of Pk must award Nishan-i-Haider to Pk's brave son Shaheed Aitezaz," journalist Nasim Zehra tweeted on Thursday.

BBC News - Aitzaz Hasan: Tributes to Pakistan teenager killed when he stopped a bomber